Continuing Education for Occupational Therapy Practitioners
... a series of professional seminars designed for Occupational Therapists and other health service practitioners. This workshop series offers 'best practice' theory and fundamentals, complemented by current practical application.
Sponsored by Dominican's Department of Occupational Therapy and Professional and Continuing Education (PACE).
Each interactive session is customized to meet the needs of the specific group. Participants will be fully engaged, and will leave each session with applications that can be implemented in their own practice immediately. Participants will receive 6 PDU's for each full-seminar completed.
Topics/ Instructors
Drive Well: Promoting and Sustaining Elder Driving And Community Mobolity
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Presenters: Karen Smith, OTR/L and Certified Driving Rehab Specialist and Julio Lacayo, Department of Motor Vehicles.
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Presenters: Barbara Kelmanson, PhD
Upper Extremity Review: Function, Dysfunction and Intervention
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Presenters: Karen Pittbladdo, Dominican OT Faculty and Asma Asyyed, PhD, and Brian Cable, MD surgeon
Place
Dominican University of California, Creekside Room
Dates: February 23, March 29 and April 19, 2008
Times
8:30 am Participant Registration. Continental Breakfast.
9:00 am - noon Theoretical Foundations
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm Networking Box Lunch (included) - an opportunity to meet with peer practitioners
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Treatment Principles
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Practical Applications - applying principles to selected cases and
practice settings.
Price per Person
Individual Seminar $150
Dominican Students & Alumni $125
Multiple Sessions $125 per session
Groups (2 or more from same $125 per session
practice or organization)
Contact Information
Sandy Baker
Director, PACE, Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901
(415)485-3255 482-3575 fax
sbaker@dominican.edu
To Register
Download the registration form (word doc)
Special Thanks
- Curriculum Advisors
Ruth Ramsey, Chair, Occupational Therapy
Stacy Frauwirth
Also of Interest
Steering Clear: Understanding and Evaluating the Older Driver
This interactive course will provide OT's with greater competency and increased knowledge about evaluation tools available to assess the older driver in the clinic. Participants will increase their ability to accurately choose assessments required to analyze visual protection, cognition, and physical requirements specifically related to driving. This 2-day course will count for 14 Professional Development unitsfor National Board for Certification of OCcupationa Therapy and California Board of Occupational Therapy rewnewals. For more information call SJSU Department of Occupational Therapy at 408-924-3070 or akillingsworth@casa.sjsu.edu.
March 28-29,2008
$350
San Jose University
Department of Occupational Therapy
San Jose, California
Autism; An Approah to Early Recognition and Treatment For Infants and Toddlers
Keynote speakers: Laurent Danon-Boileau, Psychoanalyst, Professor, General Linguistics; Author The Silent Child and Children without Language
April 26, 2008
Sponsored by:
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
2420 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
